DC Universe Online is a superhero-oriented massively multiplayer online role-playing game featuring heavy character customization and silly supercharged combat. Gaarix and Stinky Diver storm the streets of Gotham and Metropolis to clean the streets before making a mess of their own. With great power comes total irresponsibility.

DayZ is an ambitious mod of ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead where players control randomly spawned survivors and try not to fall victim to the zombie apocalypse. When you die you lose everything, your loot either being left out in the wilderness or added to your murderer’s inventory. This brings out the worst in people, and in many cases players will shoot each other on sight to ensure their own survival.

As many of you may now know, SimCity 5 is slated for release in early next year. Maxis is promising us a glorious and grand return of the title, with amazing new game play and world set up. Yet, they now have some major competition in the city building and simulation genre. SimCity’s cheif competition is Cities XL, which first appeared in 2009 to fill the city building and simulation void left by Maxis and EA when they chose to take such a long break from the franchise. It offers users a full 3D world that could be zoomed into street level and panned 360°, as well as multiplayer capabilities. Cities XL offers and entire globe full of city locations and a variety or maps to choose from, with stunning new and updated graphics it brought to us everything that Sim City 4 couldn’t or hadn’t.

My colleagues and I had an exciting opportunity to meet with the people at Perfect World while we were at E3. They gave us a brief tutorial and allowed us to plunge into their upcoming game, Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter. Unbelievably, this new MMO will be entirely free to play. Having heard this before about other games, I expected to see something with lackluster graphics and a simpleton storyline. With those expectations in place, I was entirely unprepared for what was placed in front of me for play.